FIRST IMPRESSIONS: AMERICAN BIOLOGISTS AT NAPLES

¹ Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287

This paper examines reactions of American biologists who traveled to the Stazione Zoologica in Naples during the 1880s and 1890s. The 1890s took a number of Americans to Naples despite the development of research resources in their own country. In part this can be attributed to the continued support of the Stazione by those Americans who had first gone, particularly by Whitman, Wilson, and Morgan. The Naples Station continued to exert an important influence on American biologists into the first years of the twentieth century.